Extension-table



(No Model.)l l

F. GOLDBACH.

EXTENSIGN TABLE.

No. 343,307. Patented June 8, '1886.

N. PETERS PhuwLiihugrapher. Wlihillgnn, DC.

AUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND GOLDBACH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

EXTENSION-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Na. 343,307, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed March 17,1883 Serial No. 88,520. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: f

Be it known that I, FERDINAND GoLDBAoH, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension Tables; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide for the closing up of a slide extension-table within a smaller space than has heretofore been found practicable.

My invention consists in a novel combination of parts in an extension-table, particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim; but to more fully comprehend my invention, reference must be had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, and Where- Figure l is an inverted plan of a table illustrating my invention with drop-leaves spread, but nolextension-leaves in place. Fig. 2 is a side View .corresponding with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section with one drop-leaf spread and the other down, andl with one extension-leaf inserted. Fig. 4 is a side view of table closed up and both drop-leaves down. Fig. 5 is a transverse section.

A and A designate, respectively, the two head-leaves, which, except that they have hinged to them the drop-leaves C C', and do not have the legs rigidly attached, are like the head-leaves of an ordinary slide-extension table-that is to say, they are fitted with the ordinary system of slides, H H and B B. The one A has rigidly secured to it by means of screws h h, or in any other desired manner, the inner pair of slides, H H, and the one A has rigidly attached to it by the screws 11, h', or otherwise, the outer pair of slides, H H, and between these rigidly-attached slides the loose extension-slides B Band B B work, the whole being tongued and grooved and working the one within the other,in a similar Inanner to those at present in use. A cross-bar,

Bto which the center legs, B2 B2, are attached, extends across the bottom of these slides, and may be attached to either of the loose slides B B or B B by screws b b, or in any other suitable manner, but is shown in the drawings as attached to the inner pair, B B.

D D designate slides, which are secured to the head-leaves A and A', near their outer ends, by means of screws a a', or in any other desired manner. The slides on one head-leaf are in line with those on the other head-leaf, and all are provided with tongues d d on their inner and outer sides, the tongues on the outer sides receiving the slides e e for the legs E E at one end of the table, and those on the inner sides receiving the slides e e for the legs F/ E at the other end of the table. The legs are rigidly attached to these slides, and each pair of legs is braced together by a cross-bar, F2. The slides e e are braced together by cross bar or brace F, and those e e by a cross-bar, F. The cross-bars F F are arranged below the extension-slides H H and B B', so that they will pass without interference, and the bar F is arranged low enough for the slides e e to pass over it, when the legs are drawn in and the drop-leaves lowered. 'Ihese slides e e and e e are provided with grooves d d', to work or slide upon the inner and outer tongues, dd, of the `slides D D', and they and the legs E E slide under the drop-leaves to support the latter when spread. It will be seen in Figs. l and 5 that the said slides e e and e e are outside and quite independent of the extensionslides.

The table is shut up to its shortest length by removing the extension-leaves and pushing the head-leaves A A together on the extensionslides H HBB, and then pushing in thelegs E EEE and theirslides e ee e on the slides D D. If it be desired to extend the table by simply spreading thedrop-leaves, the said leaves are raised and the legs and their slides pulled out under the said leaves to hold them up. If it be desired to further extend the table, the head-leaves A A are pulled apart on their slides H H B B', the legs E E E E being drawn out with them, and one or more of the IOO a table a single center leaf with drop-leaves t hinged to its opposite sides and legs which are l In an extension-table, the combination of two connected by slides with the center leaf, so that the legs and slides may be drawn out to support the drop-leaves when raised.

I am also aware that it is not new to employ in an extension table two separable headleaves which are supported by a iiXed frame when pushed close together, and slides'provided with legs and capable of extension to support the head-leaves when separated, dropleaves hinged to the outer edges of the headleaves, and arms or supports pivoted to the sliding frame which supports the head-leaves and adapted to be swung horizontally outward under the drop -leaves when the' latter are raised.

I do not claim either of the above constructions as included-in my invention.

Vhat I claim as my invention is as follows:

separable head-leaves, A A', and extensionslides connecting them, a cross-bar, B, extending between and connected with the extensionslides between their ends and provided with center legs, 13"', drop-leaves C C, hinged one toeaeh of saidseparable head-leaves,drop1eaf supporting slides connected with the headleaves and to be extended under the dropleaves when thelatter are raised,and legs fixed to and movable with the drop-leaf-supporting slides, and serving to sustain them and the drop-leaves when raised, substantially as herein' described.

FERDIN AND GOLDBACH.

Vitn esses:

FREDK. HAYNEs, En. L. MORIN. 

